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John Kassir was born on October 24, 1957, in Baltimore, Maryland, [1] to an Iraqi father from Mosul and a Syrian mother from Mardin, present-day Turkey. [3] He is of Assyrian descent.
Assyrian folk/pop music, also known as Assyrian folk-pop, is the musical style of the Assyrian people derived from traditional music that includes a broad range of stylistic varieties, which would also encompass fusions of Western genres such as pop, electronic, Latin, jazz and/or classical music, with a melodic basis of Assyrian folk.
Linda George (Syriac: ܠܢܕܐ ܓ̰ܘܪܓ̰; [a] born 11 February 1964 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Assyrian-American singer known for her sentimental ballads and dance songs. The vast majority of her songs are sung in her native Assyrian Neo-Aramaic dialect, though a few are in English, Turoyo and Arabic.
Introduced as the official language of the Assyrian Empire by Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BCE), it became the language of commerce and trade, the vernacular language of Assyria in the late Iron Age and classical antiquity, [30] [31] [32] and the lingua franca of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE), Neo-Babylonian Empire (605–539 BCE ...
Evin Agassi [a] (25 September 1945 – 17 September 2024) was an Assyrian-American singer [1] [2] who had a career that spanned for over 50 years. [3] Agassi produced over 40 albums [4] during his career, with a majority of them being released in the 1980s and 1990s.
This is a list of modern individuals. For early Christian authors, see List of Syriac writers.For ancient Assyrians, see Category:Ancient Assyrians.. The following is a list of notable ethnic Assyrians.
Gabriel Asaad (Syriac: ܓܒܪܐܝܠ ܐܣܥܕ) (March 18, 1907, Midyat – July 6, 1997 Stockholm) was an Assyrian composer and musician. Among the classical songs of Gabriel Asaad there are Ho Donho Shemsho (ܗܐ ܕܢܚܐ ܫܡܫܐ The sun is shining), Motho Rhimto (ܡܬܐ ܪܚܝܡܬܐ Beloved nation) and Moth Beth-Nahrin (ܡܬܝ ܒܝܬܢܗܪܝܢ Mesopotamia my nation).
Turoyo (Turoyo: ܛܘܪܝܐ), also referred to as Surayt (Turoyo: ܣܘܪܝܬ), or modern Suryoyo (Turoyo: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ), is a Central Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Assyrians in the Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey and in northern Syria.